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An official Umineko website translation sticky thread would be useful. A lot of useful information is posted to the official webpage but a lot of people cannot read Japanese. Here some examples of what would go in this thread:

Spoiler for By Klashikari:

Spoiler for By Jan-Poo:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Jan-Poo

I thought about giving some food for thoughts for the first time anime viewers.

Ranked 4th - Second son - Rudolf Ushiromiya
Asumu (died six years before) <- that's Rudolf's first wife
Ranked 12th - Kyrie Ushiromiya <- second wife
Ranked 8th - Battler Ushiromiya <- the graphic shows that Battler was born from Rudolf and Asumu
Child <- There's no other info on this mysterious "child", but the graphic shows it was born from Rudolf and Kyrie

Lower right square: Second sister's family:

Husband <- I wonder why they used the kanji of "husband", afaik Rosa never married. There is no info about this mysterious man, the only reason to suppose his existence is the fact that Rosa couldn't have procreated alone.
Ranked 5th - Second daughter - Rosa Ushiromiya
Ranked 9th - Maria Ushiromiya

As you can see there are a few info here that were never disclosed in the anime.
First off you may wonder what is this rank system. The character table shows every Ushiromiya's rank, but neither the site nor the anime explain why. The novel did at this point, but for that you'll have to read the thing under "spoiler" at the bottom of my post. Anyway you might want to take a closer look at how the family members are seated during lunch and dinner:

Another thing that in the anime wasn't mentioned but it is clearly shown here is the complex Battler's family situation. Asumu was never mentioned in the anime, but she's mentioned here. She was Rudolf's first wife and Battler's mother.
Kyrie is the second wife. You can see here that Kyrie and Rudolf had a child.
I guess you are completely clueless as to what's this child's name and sex and why you don't see this child at the family conference. This was explained in the novel since the beginning, but it appears that Studio Deen thinks it is better for the anime viewers to not know for now.
If you want to know anyway, see below under "spoiler tag".

Another thing that the anime hasn't covered yet is the full list of the seven sister's names. This character table also explains the age order.

Now for those who wants to know more.
What is under the spoiler tag below is only stuff that was uncovered in the first Episode (anime ep1 to ep5), however as per rules established by the mods, I still put it under spoiler tag because that's info not included in the anime. So it is your call whether you want to read this or not.

Spoiler for Rank system:

The rank system in the ushiromiya's family is quite peculiar. The first condition that must be met to be included in the rank system is to be an "Ushiromiya".
This sounds kinda obvious, but you need to think about how surnames work in Japan. Once someone marries he doesn't just marries with a man/woman, he marries into a family. Which means Eva was supposed to marry into another family and therefore she would have lost the Ushiromiya surname and any right to be listed in the Ushiromiya family rank. However in Japan under certain circumstances the man can marry into the woman's family. Since Hideyoshi after the war had practically lost all of his relatives, he gladly married into Eva's family, thus becoming an Ushiromiya himself. It is said that Kinzo accepted this because at the time Krauss and Natsuhi still didn't have any heir, and in the worst case scenario Eva and Hideyoshi's son would become the next head.
In Rosa's case, she never married. Therefore she's still an Ushiromiya, and so is her daughter. Nothing is known about Rosa's father.

The most peculiar characteristic of the Ushiromiya's family rank is: "blood" above all.
This is why the cousins are ranked higher than the four brother's spouses. Natsuhi for example is the wife of Krauss which is ranked 2nd and the next head after Kinzo. However Natsuhi's rank is lower than Maria's which is a 9 year old child.

That apart the rank order follow the age order of the four brothers: Krauss, Eva, Rudolf, Rosa.
Then on second tier you have the order of the cousins which still follow the age order of the four siblings (i.e. while George is the oldest cousin, he's still second to Jessica because he's the son of the second sibling): Jessica, George, Battler, Maria.
Last you have the spouse tier which still follow the age order of the four siblings (well.. three since Rosa is unmarried): Natsuhi, Hideyoshi, Kyrie.

What about Kyrie's child now? Logically speaking it should be ranked 9th, after Battler and before Maria. But this is mere speculation because the novel never cared to explain.

Anyway as you have seen, only blood relatives are allowed to bear the family crest on their clothes, so Natsuhi, Hideyoshi and Kyrie are excluded. Asumu was probably like that when she was still alive.

The rank order is reflected on the seat position at the dining table. Kinzo is supposed to stay at the head of the table, then from left to right, everyone is seated based on their rank, so:

Why Nanjo is there? Because that was the last seat available. He isn't really supposed to be in the Ushiromiya rank. There was a controversial sentence in the novel said by Battler. Battler claimed that that seat was supposed to be prepared for Rosa's husband. However that was probably a speculative thinking since Rosa never married and no one is supposed to know who was that man (except Rosa herself).

Spoiler for Battler's family situation:

Kyrie and Rudolf's child is a little girl named Ange. She's six years old, which mean she has born in the same year Asumu died. Take your own conclusions, anyway Battler had no doubt that Rudolf betrayed Asumu long before Asumu died.
This is why Battler never attended the family meeting for the last six years. That's because Battler was pretty much pissed at Rudolf (and he somewhat still is). He moved to his grandparents's house (from Asumu' side) and renounced to the Ushiromiya's surname.
However both those grandparents died, and Battler returned to Rudolf's house. Mind that this is not a 100% good explanation. It's not like Battler couldn't have lived alone at the age of 18.

Anyway for those long six years Battler never attended the family meetings, but her sister Ange did. So the number of people attending the Rokkenjima's family meeting shouldn't have changed.

The reason Ange doesn't appear in this 1986 family conference was also explained at the very start of Ep1 in the novel. Ange was sick.

Spoiler for servant rank?:

The way the servants are shown in that character chart is probably not random either.

The first three are the ones who can bear the Ushiromiya crest. The first is Genji who has served Kinzo for a long time. The second is Shannon who has served in the family for the last 10 years. Last is Kanon who has served for the last three years.
Then we have Gohda and Kumasawa. Gohda has been working for the family for the last two years, while Kumasawa has been there for at least 30 years. However Kumasawa is a part timer, which is probably why she's the last.

When are we going to get a Favorite Character Poll/Discussion thread? It's almost midway through the season and the first 2 Episodes have been covered. Unless it's going to be added after the series ends.

When are we going to get a Favorite Character Poll/Discussion thread? It's almost midway through the season and the first 2 Episodes have been covered. Unless it's going to be added after the series ends.

It's probably best to wait until the series ends seeing as there's still so much to cover. Though, I'm wondering how a mod will even MAKE a favorite character poll... I'm pretty sure there are too many characters to fit into one poll. Or at least... I thought so.

Why not make separate character polls for each VN episode? At least for the ones covered by the anime.

Because... there's a TON of characters, and having multiple threads about so many characters is just... well... actually giving the cast number is a spoiler so I'll just say that it's large enough to make such a move a convoluted mess.

So ... I was wondering if anyone thought it might be useful to perhaps make a sticky thread which contains the name analyses which nagare did awhile back (obviously only including characters which have appeared in the anime so far)? I think they might be useful to anime viewers in coming episodes.

Awhile ago I compiled them all into a word document and organized them (including Romanized names before the Kanji for those of us who don't recognize the Kanji names), so here is what I have:

Spoiler for contains some names of characters who haven't appeared in the anime yet:

Ushiromiya
右代宮 - Right-wing Royal Court
右 - right
代 -
1) generation, era, reign (could be used as a numerical counter for this purpose)
2) Cost/Price
3) Proxy, in behalf of..., represent
宮 - imperial, palace. Could be used for religious (shinto) importance eg (shirne/temple, 宮司 which is priest). I believe it is used this way as the Emperor is tied with the religion.

Kinzo
金蔵 - treasury
金 - gold, metal, money
蔵 - storehouse/warehouse, granary, cellar
* This is not for temporary storage. Long term. Could be use to put an idea away for forever)

Eva
絵羽 - pictured wing
絵 - picture, sketch, painting, drawing
羽 - wing (bird, plane, or even blades of a propeller), feather, used as a verb - to flap/flutter, could have the meaning of 搏つ (pulse/beat or to hit away), numerical counter for birds

Ange
縁寿 - bond for a lifetime
縁 - fate (as in bonding, soulmate kinda fate), relationship, bond, link, affinity, family line/ties
寿 - congratulate. Often this is use with words that have to do with life like 寿命 (life span) so it kinda has the meaning of life.

Rosa
楼座 - Lookout position
楼 - tower, lookout, a very tall building, a belvedere
*depending on some uses it has the cogitation of impractical
ex: 蜃気楼 (mirage), there are idioms like 空中に楼閣を描く or 砂上の楼閣 which both mean impratical)
座 - seat, position

Nanjo Terumasa
南條 輝正 - "southern law" "bright & certain"
南 – South
條 - Article (as in a law/documentation article), streak/beam (as in a beam of light, a streak of smoke).
* 條 is pretty much the same as the kanji 条 in reading and meaning.
條 is usually used in names where as 条 is more common in actual words.
I'm not sure, but I believe that 条 is just the more modern version of 條
There might be slight differences, but I'm not sure. I've never
seen 條 use in any other contents.
輝 - shine, twinkle, sparkle, brilliant, radiant
正 - certain, just, correct/right/proper, could be use a tally (there are 5 strokes in this kanji image here)

Ronoue Genji
呂ノ上 源次 - "above ryo" "next origin"
呂 - read as ろ or りょ and usually just used to place a kanji for those reading (eg 風呂) without any deep meaning. By itself... I'm not really sure. IIRC there is a musical connotation for this kanji. I'm not familiar enough with music to comment on this... IIRC it is a low note (like "do re mi" kinda note), but again, I'm not familiar enough with the kanji with this usage.
ノ -This isn't a kanji. It's the カタカナ (katakana) version of の. Like 呂 above, in particular to names (any type of name) it's used to change の into an acceptable kanji-like form. Usually の means "of"
上 - up, first volume of a book (usually for two part or three part stories), upper division, raise, done
*呂ノ上 is read as ろのうえ. In the game they allude this name to the demon Ronove.
*呂ノ上 could mean above the ryo musical note... or 呂 could be (most likely actually) be pointing to a place, city, or type of profession. To me when I see 呂 I think of 風呂 (bath). Maybe 呂ノ上 family owned a public bath house in a distant past? - Mostly likely completely unrelated to the mystery. Another possibility is this is a fake name/alias.
源 - source, origin
次 - next
*used in a given name, it's likely that the person has an older brother

Shannon
紗音 - Silky sound
紗 -gauze
*Although this kanji does have the connotation of silk
音 - Sound, tone, alternate reading of a kanji
* In Japanese most kanji have multiple readings. Two common categories are kun and on. The difference is usually the origin of the reading. Kun reading is Japanese base and On is Chinese base for the most part.

Gohda Toshiro
郷田 俊朗 - "home field" "talented and bright"
郷 - for the most part the same meaning as Maria's 里 but cannot be read as り and cannot be used as a unit of measure like Maria's 里. However, 郷 can be used as a title to address someone. 郷 as a title is similar to "Lord"
田 - field, farm land
俊 - talented, genius
朗 - bright, cheery, clear (as in clear sounding)

Kumasawa Chiyo
熊沢 チヨ - "Bear's stream" ?
熊 - bear
沢 - stream (usually mountain, also usually small). A small marsh-land might also be called a sawa as well
*チヨ - This is completely uncommon for someone from her generation to have a name all in katakana.
Possibility 1: she writes her name this way b/c her name in kanji is hard to read - Like this family would care about that.
Possibility 2: Alias.
Possibility 3: In kanji, her name can be read this way, but legally it is read differently.

hey guyz .. what do you think of a thread that we can talk about the suspicion culprit .. now i made my mind that the killer is a human and magic is not involved in anyway even if Battler believed in Beato, im not gonna do the same coz i know the murderer is a human .. a very disgusting one .

we can make a thread that if any one of us suspect any character, we write the name of the suspicious person and what is making us suspect him/her.
i think making thread about this topic gonna make it easier for us than writing about it in episodes discussion or characters discussion.